Starting a VPS Service.

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• Boltersdriveer Member, LIR

  March 2016

  makandey said: Yeah, good point. Should probably look into better hardware.

  It's not just about better hardware. Usually with more 'premium' services, providers are obliged/inclined to provide Service Level Agreements promising uptime of a certain level. If the vendors/upstreams you use don't even offer that for you and you offer that, it's just false marketing. Looking as you were intending to get a Delimiter service and provide 'premium' service off of it, what would you do if, for example, they have an outage of a few days like previously?
• 2khosts Member

  March 2016 edited March 2016

  If you want to start a vps service (company) and have a budget of at least $8000 for promotions ads seo social media, and can pay 1 year ahead for all your services, nodes etc, and have a $3000+ backup money you will be fine.
• Dustlab Member

  March 2016

  makandey said: Very true, I was looking into building my own version of WHMCS. Maybe something like Linode. Of course making a cloud VPS software isn't too hard for me if I had enough time and documentation, (since my knowledge of HTML, JS, PHP is great, well at least I think) but the thought of the amount of servers I would need is probably to much for a small starter like me.

  Don't try to reinvent the wheel, it could distract you from the business - which I figured was the medium-long term goal.. @edan and @BeardyUnixGuy both gave good advice, and you're seeing first hand the community's _mostly _well supported cynicism.

  You can do all the math you want, but if you don't have a concise business plan actually written down, then you are missing your foundation. Futurpreneur has a good interactive bp writer, and I encouragedforced my most recent business partner to work through it before I agreed to come on board. It has been invaluable in guiding our business expansion from shared hosting to include vps. We just surpassed our first 100 clients after 8 months with negligible advertising, and were cashflow positive by December.

  If you have questions, feel free to PM.

  Thanked by 3edan aglodek makandey
• makandey Member

  March 2016

  @Boltersdriveer said:
  It's not just about better hardware. Usually with more 'premium' services, providers are obliged/inclined to provide Service Level Agreements promising uptime of a certain level. If the vendors/upstreams you use don't even offer that for you and you offer that, it's just false marketing. Looking as you were intending to get a Delimiter service and provide 'premium' service off of it, what would you do if, for example, they have an outage of a few days like previously?

  Still not sure if I will even get from them though.

  @Dustlab said:
  If you have questions, feel free to PM.

  Thanks! Yeah I think I will have to work on the business plan quite a lot.
• shovenose Member, Host Rep

  March 2016

  @BharatB said:
  I can feel the heat already summer is very bad this year.

  We better get an A/C unit in here.
• BharatB Patron Provider, Veteran

  March 2016

  @shovenose said:
  We better get an A/C unit in here.

  So bad that you could see a A/C sweating :P
• flopv Member

  March 2016

  Dual XEON E5420 is too old processor. Replace it with some good processor, which can handle to load.